Nicolas Mallet,1,2 Alek Pogosyan,2 Andrew Sharott,3 Jozsef Csicsvari,1 J. Paul Bolam,1 Peter Brown,2 and Peter J. Magill1 1Medical Research Council Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TH, United Kingdom, 2Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom, and 3Institute of Neurophysiology and ...

Injuries of the fingers and thumb in the athlete are common. Mallet finger, jersey finger, boutonniere deformity, Bennett and Rolando fractures, and gamekeeper's thumb are just a few of the injuries that can occur in athletes. A thorough understanding of the mechanism of injury, osseous and soft tissue abnormalities, imaging features, and treatment is important in the care of athletes. Prompt a...

Daytime refuges are important to nocturnal rodents for protection from predators and environmental extremes. Because refuges of forest-dwelling rodents are often associated with woody debris, we examined refuge use by 37 radio-collared Peromyscus gossypinus (cotton mice) in experimental plots with different levels of woody debris. Treatment plots had six times (≈ 60 m/ha) the volume of woody de...

BACKGROUND In the management of mallet deformities, oblique retinacular ligament (ORL) reconstruction provides a mechanism for automatic distal interphalangeal (DIP) joint extension upon active proximal interphalangeal joint extension. The two variants of ORL reconstruction utilize either the lateral band or a free tendon graft. This study aims to compare these two surgical techniques and to as...

objective considerable medical and legal debates have surrounded the prognosis and outcome of obstetrical brachial plexus injuries and obstetricians are often considered responsible for the injury. in this study, we assessed the factors related to the outcome of brachial plexus palsy. material & methods during 24 months, 21 neonates with obstetrical brachial plexus injuries were enrolled. elect...

Submitted for the MAR08 Meeting of The American Physical Society Electron states of monoand bilayer graphene on SiC probed by STM FRANÇOIS VARCHON, PIERRE MALLET, CÉCILE NAUD, Institut NEEL CNRS/UJF, 25 rue des Martyrs BP166, 38042 Grenoble, CLAIRE BERGER, The Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0430; Institut NEEL CNRS/UJF, 25 rue des Martyrs BP166, 38042 Grenoble, LAURENCE...

SolidMallet TMR (trimedlure [TML], methyl eugenol [ME], raspberry ketone [RK]) wafers and Mallet CMR (ceralure, ME, RK, benzyl acetate) wafers impregnated with DDVP (2,2dichlorovinyl dimethyl phosphate) insecticideweremeasured in traps as potential detection andmale annihilation technique (MAT) devices. Comparisons were made with 1) liquid lure and insecticide formulations, 2) solid cones and p...

In this paper we continue our investigations into robotic air hockey by studying the problem of controlling the trajectory of a puck subject to intermittent impacts. Impacts are modeled using the Routh two-dimensional impact model which incorporates spin and friction. Using this model, we derive an explicit mapping between pre-impact and post-impact velocities of the puck. We will see that this...